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What are some things you would've liked to have seen with Steam? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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I would've liked to have seen a timeline of periods as to when you played a game. Like it could be displayed in a bar like picture, that shows the time you've bought the game and every dot afterwards, details when you've played the game after that point up to the recent point of time.

To expand a little on this idea. The timeline could go by a month within a year. So, it'd be like you played a game at a point in 2024, on December. It doesn't have to be specifically as to what time but if needed, either way works. It could show how many times too during that day on the month of and year of, you launched the game for.

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[–] 1 point 8 hours ago (2 children)

How often do you have to go online to activate it?

Or how long can you stay offline?

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  • [–] 1 point 51 minutes ago* (1 child)

    Unfortunately, that depends on the game. The lowest I've seen is 14 days, but I think that's due to denovou's timed tokens.

    There's also cases where if you just run an offline mode, but your system is actually online, Steam when it launches, does an update check, and if it tries to update the Steam client, it can invalidate your offline mode as well, requiring you to go back onto online mode, and, hence, do an update check.

    Generally outside of smaller titles you'll get around 30 days of offline use before some issue occurs that requires you to go online. Because 30 Days is the window that Steam gives authentication tokens to the client, and any token that hasn't been refreshed within 30 days gets invalidated, which turns off offline play until it's revalidated.

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